15.00 for people who are supporting themselves is bare bone in most of the country. Every penny companies don't pay to their employees ends up being subsidized by state taxes in the form of food stamps etc. I think companies get plenty of breaks from the US without us subsidizing employees because companies are pocketing greater profits. The alternative is watching more people starve. Not everyone in this country wants or needs to be a gambler on the stock market. Some people just want a roof over their heads and food on the table. In this country that gives massive tax breaks to the rich and the military gets as much spent on it as the next 10 countries spend combined, I think it is criminal to not take of our own. As we care for the least of these...